... I feel very stupid for asking this... but how would I open the .dd file in the attachment? I opened the attachment in WinRAR and there is only the image.dd but I personally have not seen an extension .dd before and reading the rest of this topic I realize I will need to learn quite a bit before I can successfully complete it, but so far I can not find anything to open the file.....(._.") insult as you please... Dx but please help first...

lonelyshadow wrote:how would I open the .dd file in the attachment? I opened the attachment in WinRAR and there is only the image.dd but I personally have not seen an extension .dd before and reading the rest of this topic I realize I will need to learn quite a bit before I can successfully complete it, but so far I can not find anything to open the file.....(._.")

If you looked at Wikipedia searching for dd, you might have found that it's a Unix utility for creating images. A disk image is a sector-by-sector copy of a storage medium. Now what you have to do in this mission is to find data in the image that the original user thought was removed. I would advice to finish some other missions first before attempting this or better yet, learn some Linux first (maybe it could be done in Windows, idk). It's hard if you've never used it or it's tools.

lonelyshadow wrote:but so far I can not find anything to open the file ...\... insult as you please

I'm guessing you have the wrong idea about this community. A well formulated question about something a person has searched but could not find, is worth a serious reply. Ask people to do something for you however and you'll likely be flamed.

I'm running through this in my spare time on a windows box I was able to recover the "red herring" ( that would have been too easy) I am now looking in a new location and I'm a bit stumped at the moment. in this location there is a Rar file of 0bytes and some additional stuffz am i looking in the correct direction or am I missing something ?